Abstract: A method of apportioning wagers between a plurality of game players includes each player receiving two cards, and having the option of drawing one additional card. The playing cards have numerical values of, ace equals one, picture cards equal zero, and all other cards equaling their face value. The cards in each player's hand are summed to form a numerical total. The least significant digit of the numerical total determines the winner, wherein a least significant digit of nine or closest thereto is the best hand. Additional game features include (1) a provision which eliminates ties (pushes), (2) a set of special dice (300/400) which are used to determine an action player, (3) a secondary player-banker who takes over for the player-banker if the bank does not reach all the players, and (4) a fast-action-bank feature in which the role of the player-banker may change during a round of play.

Abstract: A die has four faces in the shape of isosceles triangles. The die uses an efficient amount of material and can be read without the player having to pick up the die. Each face of the die has placed thereon an indicium corresponding to only a single face. The die provides an equal chance for each of the four faces to be selected.

Abstract: An arithmetic game for teaching students basic mathematical skills includes a playing board, four dice, and a complement of playing pieces, or markers. Indicia disposed on the boards and dice determine whether and where a player may place a marker on the board. Board indicia includes numerals two-dimensionally arranged to form a mathematical table. Indicia disposed on the dice includes numerals and mathematical functions. Results are mathematically calculated by a player from the various two numeral combinations presented by the dice. The player evaluates the results to assess the strategic significance of each, and a marker is placed at a position on the mathematical table corresponding to the chosen result. The first player to connect his or her markers from one side of the mathematical table to the other side wins.

Abstract: A game board apparatus and method of playing the game according to the present invention includes a game board arranged with four player areas. The four player areas are arranged in a virtually identical manner and each is marked for one of the four suits of a conventional deck of playing cards. Each player area includes four blocks with each block being partitioned into two game spaces which are separated by a ladder. The cards marked in the eight game spaces are for the two through nine of that player's suit. Above the ladders in each player's area are four squares marked for the jack, queen, king, and ace of that player's suit. An initial target value is assigned for the play of the game and a conventional deck of playing cards with a joker-like wild card mixed in is shuffled and placed on the game board. A conventional die in combination with a color-coded die is used by each player during their turn.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for consulting and contemplating the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The invention provides six rectangular sticks having indicia on the four sides. Two of the indicia represents the changing Yang line and the Yin line and are located on two of the sides opposite from one another, and the other two indicia represent the changing Yin line and the Yang line and are located on the other two sides opposite from one another. The sticks are tossed in order to arrive at a first hexagram. In the event that there are any changing lines appearing in the first hexagram, the sticks having the changing lines are turned over to construct a second hexagram.

Abstract: A method of playing a dice game is provided of the type wherein points are accumulated based upon the scores received for various combinations of numerical values displayed from a roll or throw of a plurality of dice, and by increasing a thrown score and deducting from or adding to the accumulated score this increased score based upon a roll of a die.

Abstract: A first set of cubes has a first set of consonants printed thereon. A second set of cubes has a second set of consonants printed thereon which occur less commonly in english words than the first set of consonants. A third set of cubes has vowels printed thereon. Score cards and a timer are inlcuded.

Abstract: A set of dice (20, 120) for producing a range of numerical values includes a plurality of diced each having a representation of a selected number disposed on each of its six sides. In one embodiment the set of dice 20 includes first die 22, second die 24, and third die 26, and the range of numerical values produced is one through eight. In a second embodiment the set of dice 120 includes first die 122 and second die 124, and the range of numerical values produced is one through nine.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing games relating to time comprises one or two dice and a clock. The dice are dodecahedral. One dice represents hours and has its facets numbered from 1 to 12. The other dice represents minutes and is numbered at intervals of 5 from 5 to 60. The clock is made up of a central circular core and twelve sector-shaped outer segments. Various games can be played with the apparatus.

Abstract: A board game having a game board, tokens and a random indicator which may be tiles or dice. The game board has a playing surface defined by a matrix of spaces, and the random indicator is used to direct the movement of the tokens across the surface. The tiles or dice each have faces thereon, wherein each face bears three types of indicia. One type of indicia indicates the direction of movement of the token, either forward or backward, the second type of indicia indicates the amount of movement of the token, and the third type of indicia indicates the axis of reference the token is supposed to move along.

Abstract: A dice game and board are disclosed and a lead player is determined. The lead player and all succeeding players each have a turn in each round of play. The lead player rolls eight dice in an attempt to get the greatest number of either 6's, 5's, 4's, 3's, 2's, or 1's. In any turn the lead player may roll up to five of the dice twice after the initial roll in an effort to add to the number of 6's, 5's, 4's, 3's, 2's, or 1's rolled in the first roll. A predetermined value is assigned to the result of the lead player's turn. This value may be indicated upon the game board by placing a colored marker peg at the appropriate value on the game board. Subsequent players attempt to achieve a result of a higher predetermined value than that achieved by the lead player in the same number of rolls used by the lead player. If one or more subsequent players achieve a result higher than that of the lead player, the subsequent player with the highest result becomes the lead player and begins a new round of play.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a word game wherein words are formed by arrangement of letters of the alphabet appearing on the faces of a set of dice wherein each letter represented and the number of times the letter is represented in the set of dice, approximates the frequency of their appearance in a corpus of words.

Abstract: Dice are disclosed which are generally spherical and which have a multiplicity of flat faces bearing indicia--symbols, letters, numerals or the like formed thereon by cutting, etching or engraving. The faces are arranged in opposed identical pairs with their centers lying on axes passing through the center of the die. In passing through the center of the die the axes may be symmetrically spaced one from the other or be arranged such that their angular spacing in both bearing and elevation is maximized.

Abstract: A casino game using three dice, one having the color red and the other two having bodies of white. The red die is rolled first followed by a roll of the two white dice. A better wins when the two white dice show a total number larger than the number on the red die and the total number on the white dice and the number on the red die are both odd or both even. Payoff ratios can be varied and various side bets, depending upon the outcome of the dice rolls may be arranged.

Abstract: A ball game device and method of using the same comprising a spherical body made of a resilient material preferably durable plastic or rubber and dimensioned to be kicked or struck on a playing surface either indoors or outdoors. The spherical body has eight equally-sized faces all of which are generally flat-surfaced for resting upon the surface. Each face has indicia displayed thereupon which describes and displays an outcome in a baseball game. Base members have words displayed thereon which correspond or are synonyms to the indicia displayed on the spherical body. The face facing upwardly on the surface after the spherical body comes to rest on the surface upon being struck, kicked, or rolled by the user determines the fate of the user in the ball game.

Abstract: A game for practicing and refining physical coordination of an individual. The inventive device includes a truncated conical body having a first end of a first diameter tapering to a second end of a larger second diameter. Numerical indica is printed proximal to each end and points are awarded to a player for spinning the conical body in the air and causing the body to land onto a support surface with one of the two ends of the body resting on the support surface.

Abstract: A dice game for entertaining players. The inventive game utilizes a plurality of dice and may include score cards, a rule book, a dice agitator cup, and a storage box. A method of play of the game includes rolling up to five dice and computing a score in accordance with the numbers generated. Score is kept for each player with the winner being declared as the player obtaining a score within a predetermined scoring window or spread.

Abstract: A three-dimensional playing device has a cubic frame having nine windows per face of the cube arranged in three rows and three columns and 26 (3.times.

Abstract: A game is played by rolling a plurality of multi-faced dice and accumulating a total of the numbers shown on the up faces of the dice. One face of each die bears a symbol, and the player loses the points accumulated during his turn if one of the dice displays a symbol as a result of having been rolled, and the player loses all of his points if both of the dice displays the symbols as a result of the roll.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of play for a board game with a board having spaces defining vertical, horizontal, and diagonal paths. Each player has a set of markers. The object of the game is to complete any one path before the other players by occupying with its markers all the spaces for that path. A directional name indicator randomly selects a players move options each turn. A number selector randomly selects numbers for each player each turn which controls the maximum number of markers that can be added, or other players markers which can be removed, each turn.

Abstract: A baseball board game utilizes a first set of six-sided dice and a sectored spinner to simulate the statistical probabilities of hits, walks, outs, and strikeouts. The first set of dice is coded with specific designations so that the possible combinations of the designations determine whether the player has achieved a hit, walk, strikeout, or out. The spinner is divided into labeled sectors to represent different types of hits. Once it has been determined that a player has achieved a hit by rolling the dice, the player then spins the spinner to determine what type of hit is achieved. The labeled sectors of the spinner are arranged to accurately represent the statistical distribution of the type of hits. The board game further utilizes a second set of dice to determine the outcome of a steal attempt. The second pair of dice is coded with specific designations so that the possible combinations of the designations determine whether the player has successfully stolen a base.

Abstract: A dice game for allowing two or more players to compete against each other comprising seven plastic cube-shaped dice each having six faces, six of the dice bearing numeric indicia with each dice having its faces marked from 1 to 6 respectively, the remaining die having one of its faces marked with the letter "W" defined as "wild" and the other five faces unmarked; a cup for receiving, shaking, and throwing the dice therefrom; a rectangular dice box having a bottom wall and four side walls extended upwards about its periphery to define a playing space for throwing the dice thereon; and a score sheet for tallying a player's score based upon throws of the dice.

Abstract: A family vacation board game provides a geopolitical map of the United States as a game board, with plural playing paths thereacross. The object of the game is to be the first player to complete a round trip across the board, using a randomly selected playing path each way. Special dice are used for the playing path selection at the beginning of the game and at the beginning of the return trip, and for the determination of the magnitude of each move and drawing of dividend and hazard cards during the course of play. Simulated currency is provided at the beginning of the game, with simulated financial transactions occurring according to the cards drawn. In addition, positions are provided adjacent to the playing paths, which provide an opportunity for players to accrue additional money by correctly answering questions relating to U.S. geography when the players achieve those positions.

Abstract: A method of playing a dice game utilizing a game die having indicia on some sides which are different in kind from indicia on other sides and producing functional relationships for facilitating the calculation of points scored in dice games wherein a plurality of such dice are used, and a deck of instruction cards drawn by election. A preferred embodiment of the die of the present invention comprises a cube including a first side having thereon the numeral 100, a second side having thereon the numeral 50, and third through sixth sides respectively having thereon two spots, three spots, four spots and six spots.

Abstract: A polyhedra for emulating an object or other phenomena with marked surfaces, includes a plurality of faces, some with markings and some being blank. The surfaces are arranged about the polyhedra so that each marked face is opposite a blank face. The polyhedra may be used for conducting and/or demonstrating the principles of probability in conjunction with a projection device.

Abstract: A card game and a method of playing same which is akin to bridge in the sense of following suit and the use of trump cards but entirely different in the rules and procedures. Suitable for two to four players, a regular deck of 52 cards is utilized. Initially each player is dealt fifteen cards (except with four players, each is dealt thirteen cards). Each succeeding hand is played with one less card than the previous hand being dealt to each player. Until the number of hands reaches the point where seven cards are being dealt. The trump suit (including no trump) is determined by a preset designation for each hand which appears on the game sheet and score card. At the seven card level a series of four hands are played wherein the trump suit is determined by the roll of a special die and the play governed by special rules as outlined hereinafter. Thereafter the regular procedure of decreasing by one each hand the number of cards dealt is followed until the last hand where each layer receives only one card each.

Abstract: An educational and recreational game and method of playing thereof emulates the presidential election process in the U.S.A. Each of the 51 voting jurisdictions is assigned a representative number of electoral votes. Voting for each state follows an ordered path starting in Maine and following a serpentine path through and including 48 additional states and the District of Columbia and concluding in California. Each player or team of players, representing a major political party, Democratic, Republican, Independent, rolls a dice having faces marked with differing percentages of the popular vote to determine a win or loss of the popular and electoral votes for each state. Play continues until one team amasses at least 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election and place its candidate in the White House.

Abstract: A game device including a hollow, transparent plastic ball that is struck by a mallet having soft, resilient striking surfaces and an elongated centrally disposed handle with the mallet being swung in a manner to strike the ball to drive it along a ground surface in a manner similar to croquet. The clear, transparent plastic ball is provided with a block freely movable within the interior of the ball with each face of the block being provided with instructional indicia. After the ball has been struck by the mallet and ceases to roll, the upwardly facing face of the block provides instructions for the next playing sequence. The blocks may be constructed of cardboard or plastic material and may be various shapes including square, hexagonal, pentagonal or octagonal which enables many different types of games to be played in accordance with the selection of instructional indicia to be placed on the faces of the block.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for playing a CASINO dice game with a set of six identical dice in which each die has a different symbol on each face. The symbol may be one of the letters of the same six lettered word CASINO or one of six different colors. A scoring system assigns a predetermined point value to individual symbols or combined symbols. A player must reach a threshold level of 1000 points and surrender his turn before rolling nothing of value for that player's points to count, failing which he loses his turn and all points accumulated during that turn. The players then continue to play until one player ends the game by reaching 10,000 points. That player may choose to surrender his turn and establish his final score as the winning high score or continue his turn to establish an even higher score, at the risk of losing his turn, his points for that turn, and the established winning score if he rolls nothing of value.

Abstract: A method of playing a betting game is disclosed. A playing surface includes numerical zones that represent the possible outcomes of the sum of either two rolls of a pair of dice or three rolls of a pair of dice. Certain of these zones are defined as walls, and the other zones are provided with payout rewards. In play, a number of players place "survival" bets. One player is selected to begin rolling the pair of dice until either the maximum number of rolls is achieved without hitting a wall, or the sum of each roll of the dice falls within a wall. If the sum of the rolls of the dice falls within a wall, the survival bets are collected, the dice are passed to another player, and the game begins again. Otherwise, the appropriate payout reward is paid to each player who made a survival bet. Other single-roll side bets may be included for allowing players to bet upon the chance outcome of high numbers, low numbers, doubled, or a natural 12.

Abstract: A set of dice, each die being a transparent, six-sided cube. A number of extrusions or marking indicia are located on each of the outer surfaces of the dice and are numbered, lettered or otherwise designated. The interior of each die is hollow, with small impressions on the inner surfaces located directly opposite the extrusions. A ball is disposed inside each die and is free to move around the hollow interior. The interior impressions are sized so that the ball will settle in one of the impressions when the die comes to rest after being thrown. Each of the impressions lies directly beneath a an extrusion or marking indicia on the upwardly facing outer surface of the die, which is read to determine the outcome of the toss. Thus, each toss of the dice will generate different numbers for use in games of chance such as lotteries and the like.

Abstract: A bowling board game apparatus includes a deck of action cards, a deck of percentage cards, a pin die with twelve sides, and an action die with twelve sides. Each side of the pin die contains indicia indicating the number of pins knocked down or an instruction that a player is to draw an action card. Each side of the action die contains one of three action commands. The apparatus further includes a matrix chart and a pad of score cards. The matrix chart is employed to determine the number of pins knocked down when a player has been instructed to draw a percentage card.

Abstract: An educational game that aids in the development of the fundamentals of freehand drawing and assists players of the game in learning the relationship between all of the parts that comprise a whole. According to the present invention, there is provided a drawing area, such as a sheet of paper, erasable form board, etc., having imprinted thereon a single image which, when combined with several other images drawn by a player, results in a fully completed picture. In conjunction with the drawing area, a die or other selectiion device is used to determine each players' opportunity to complete the picture. Each side of the die presents the player with a different option for proceeding.

Abstract: A new dice and card game is disclosed. The playing surface is arranged in two sections, each having betting boxes for the various combinations which can be rolled with the given number of dice or dealt with the given number of cards. The first section is used for wagering in a first round. If any of the players win in the first round, bets are placed on a step-up betting box and further wagers are placed on boxes in the second section. The second section is arranged such that certain betting boxes are associated with given betting boxes in the first section, i.e. the associated bets include the combinations of the first round.

Abstract: A dice displaying apparatus for a computer game machine includes a trackball operable by each player. Rolling speeds of two dice are derived from an amount and direction of operation of the trackball. Rolling angles of the dice are also derived from the amount and direction of operation of the trackball, with slight angles derived from random numbers added thereto. Display positions for the respective dice are determined every predetermined intervals of time from the rolling speeds and rolling angles. Image patterns of varied phases of rolling dice corresponding to the rolling angles are presented in the respective display positions on CRT displays.

Abstract: A game device comprising mainly a geometric body having at least two flat external faces, each of the flat external faces is provided with at least one indicating piece, each of the indicating piece is provided with at least one indicating face, each of the indicating faces is provided with at least one indicium.

Abstract: A board game apparatus is provided having a game board on which a pathway is formed and over which playing pieces of respective players are incrementally advanced from a start point to an end point. The pathway includes a plurality of playing spaces serially distributed along the pathway between the start and end points with the playing pieces advanced to a playing space as determined by a random selection of the space to which a player is to advance his playing piece. Each playing space is defined by two discrete indicia that are each selected from respective ones of two indicia series that each include a plurality of diverse indicia with all indicia in each series being distinguishable from all indicia in the other series. The playing spaces are randomly interspersed along the pathway to avoid having same playing spaces disposed adjacent each other.

Abstract: A dice simulator for simulating dice rolling or the like utilizes operator selectable probability weighting to cause quasi-random rolling results to be biased in accordance with the selected probability weighing.

Abstract: A game to simulate soccer with a simulated soccer field having conventional soccer demarcations directed thereabout. Various player positions are imparted permanently on the soccer game field for simulating opposing teams. A twenty-six sided die is provided to afford directed play to various players of each team, with the die having identical enumeration in contrasting colorations for association with the contrasting teams.

Abstract: 12-sided and 20-sided dice are disclosed which have a suit symbol and a value symbol on each surface representing one of the various playing cards in a standard 52 card playing deck. The 12-sided die will carry 3 different value symbols for each of the 4 suits and, accordingly, will depict 12 different cards, one on each of its surfaces which are identically shaped pentagons. A game is disclosed which employ three or more of such dice, all identical. In another embodiment a 20-sided die is provided which carries 5 values of each of the four suits. In all embodiments, parallel, opposing surfaces will bear the same value symbol and no two surfaces adjoined together along a common edge will bear the same suit symbol. This symmetrical arrangement provides for integrity of chance in re-rolling the dice and complete randomness of chance.

Abstract: A heat activated amusement device is stimulated, by the transfer of thermal energy from a person's body or a heated object, to reveal by color differentiation a hidden message or visual image.

Abstract: A dice member includes a first end and second end, each of an equilateral triangle configuration spaced in a parallel relationship whose base is oriented in an opposed orientation relative to the other end. Indicia imparted to the arcuate side walls at opposed ends of varying enumeration adjacent opposed ends of each side wall.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of selecting a set of integers from a larger, predetermined sequence of integers, whereby a multiplicity of dice equal in number to the number of integers in said predetermined sequence of integers is provided, with each die having a plurality of exterior faces with an integer of the predetermined sequence on only one face of each die. Moreover, at least a portion of the integer bearing face has one of a predetermined set of colors, such that each color is associated with a subset of integers from the predetermined sequence of integers, such that each subset is generated by reviewing the number of times each integer was chosen in a previous years lottery with those integers appearing most often having a first color, those integers appearing next most often having a second color, until finally the integer appearing least often is assigned a last color. The color appearing on the face of the die being the color associated with the subset of which the facing integer is a member.

Abstract: A method of playing a game where there is a first set of die, each of which has the numerical values of one through six thereon, and a second set of die each of which has plus, minus, division and multiplication signs thereon. The two sets of die are discharged onto a playing surface in a random pattern, and then the individual dice members of the first and second set are placed in an alternating pattern so that when the mathematical operations are performed as indicated in the alternating arrangement of the two sets of die, a desired maximum value is obtained.

Abstract: A set of thirteen dice, each die of the set having four display panels. Each of the display panels carries indicia denoting a card of a standard deck of playing cards. The indicia of each of the four panels of each die denote a card of a suit differing from the suits of the cards denoted on the other three panels of the die and further denote a card of a denomination differing from the denominations denoted on the other three panels of the die.

Abstract: An educational game has a playing board on which is imprinted a pathway. The pathway contains a plurality of segments, each segment being separated, one from the other by an object image portion. Each segment is sub-divided into spaces bearing alpha-numeric indicia with each segment being a different selected color. There is a die associated with each of the segments and which bears the color of an associated segment. Each such die bears the alpha-numeric indicia associated with that given colored segment. On one face of each die is an object image as depicted in the object image portions between the primary segments of the pathway on the playing board. A child learns the colors of the segments, the colors of each of the dice employed, and the names of the objects which appear in the object spaces and on the object face of each die. Play is easily learned by the preschool children.

Abstract: Presented is a random character selector device having a heptahedron-shaped body portion displaying seven facets arranged symmetrically about a central longitudinal axis. Seven different sets of indicia related to numerical values from one (1) to seven (7) are marked on or embedded within the heptahedron-shaped body portion so that each numerical value is visible on or through at least one associated facet of the heptahedron body portion. The heptahedron-shaped random character selector is rolled on a flat surface and comes to rest on one of the flat facets. One of the indicia sets is displayed diametrically on the top of the selector device.

Abstract: 12-sided and 20-sided dice are disclosed which have a suit symbol and a value symbol on each surface representing one of the various playing cards in a standard 52 card playing deck. The 12-sided die will carry 3 different value symbols for each of the 4 suits and, accordingly, will depict 12 different cards, one on each of its surfaces which are identically shaped pentagons. A game is disclosed which employ three or more of such dice, all identical. In another embodiment a 20-sided die is provided which carries 5 values of each of the four suits. In all embodiments, parallel, opposing surfaces will bear the same value symbol and no two surfaces adjoined together along a common edge will bear the same suit symbol. This symmetrical arrangement provides for integrity of change in re-rolling the dice and complete randomness of chance.

Abstract: A game apparatus which includes a game board providing a playing area which simulates the geographical area of the United States with each of the 50 states outlined and identified. Each of the states contain one or more pairs of directional arrows for travel for a game piece. A plurality of identifiable playing pieces are used which are intended to be moved from state to state. One game piece is assigned to and moved by each individual player upon a roll of specially designed dice in a north, south, east or west direction in response to the reading of the dice.

Abstract: The invention comprises a set of six dice that provides two groups of intransitive dice, each group containing three dice (10, 20 and 30). The dice of one group are sized larger than those of the other group. Each die is one of three colors and each group of three intransitive dice includes a die of each color. The six dice are used in a casino game wherein all dice are rolled and then twelve possible bets are resolved. These bets fall into three catagories: contests between two dice of the same size but different colors, contests between two dice of one color and two dice of another color, and contests matching two dice, each of a different color and different size versus another two dice, each of a different color and different size. Game apparatus includes a layout (40) providing twelve betting areas (A-L) and chips (50) for placing wagers on twelve possible bets.